1 Samuel 31:8-13

8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 9So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, ato carry the good news bto the house of their idols and to the people. 10 cThey put his armor in the temple of dAshtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of eBeth-shan. 11 fBut when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 gall the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh hand burned them there. 13And they took their bones iand buried them under jthe tamarisk tree in Jabesh and kfasted seven days.

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